You know when you have become a meditation practitioner when in times of crisis you turn to the states of mind that you have been cultivating in meditation to find stability, calm and clarity. The fact that you are able to use the mind-states that you focus on in meditation to solve actual challenges in your [...]
Here are five levels of positive intention that we can hold, and that we can use as conscious motivators for our meditation and awareness practice, or indeed as full objects of meditation in themselves: 1. The intention to practice non-harmfulness toward ourself and others 2. The intention to heal, nurture our body-mind, and develop it [...]
Here are three simple meditation forms that you can do anytime, either as a short 1-5 minute practice in a spare moment, or as a longer meditations when you have more time. 1. Developing appreciation of simple awareness. One of the main things that we learn to appreciate when we take up a meditation practice [...]
Hi Everyone, One of the main foundations of meditation practice is the development of awareness, but what exactly is it that we should be developing awareness of? The following is a list of four basic aspects of your awareness and awareness practice that you need to be working with continually in order to ensure the [...]
How much time and energy have you spent on developing the power of your creative imagination and/or of healthy fantasy, and harness that power in a positive way? Here are three reasons why it is appropriate to do so: It is the nature of Spirit to be fundamentally creative, playful and imaginative. You can even [...]
Hi Everyone! Usually when we think of ourself, or reflect on the question “Who am I?” it seems as if there is some form of permanent, fixed, singular self that is there somewhere inside us that remains the same no matter what. However, if we look and observe a little more deeply we start to [...]
